Astrophysical: Supernovae

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    Supergiants with an Interesting Past
    Exciting things may have happened sometimes to the stars we see in the sky today. For example, Betelgeuse, also known as Alpha-Ori, an M-type red supergiant...
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    Supernova 2014J at M82 - II. Direct analysis of a middle-class Type Ia supernova
    We analyse a time series of optical spectra of SN 2014J from almost two weeks prior to maximum to nearly four months after maximum. We perform our analysis...
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    Supernova Dust
    Until the advent in the late 1990’s of sensitive submillimetre arrays such as SCUBA, it was generally thought that the main sources for the interstellar dust...
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    Supernovae and Their Expanding Blast Waves during the Early Evolution of Galactic Globular Clusters
    Our arguments deal with the early evolution of Galactic globular clusters and show why only a few of the supernovae (SNe) products were retained within globular...
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    Survey for the Binary Progenitor in SN1006 and Update on SN1572
    We have completed a survey down to R = 15 mag of the stars within a circle of 4 arcmin radius around the nominal center of the remnant of SN 1006, one of the...
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    Testing supernovae Ia distance measurement methods with SN 2011fe
    Aims: The nearby, bright, almost completely unreddened Type Ia supernova 2011fe in M101 provides a unique opportunity to test both the precision and the...
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    The black hole binary nova Scorpii 1994 (GRO J1655-40): an improved chemical analysis
    Context: The chemical analysis of secondary stars of low mass X-ray binaries provides an opportunity to study the formation processes of compact objects, either...
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    The Canarias Database of Nearby Type II Supernovae
    Our aim is to present an atlas containing 35 low-resolution spectra that correspond to 19 Type II supernovae. These spectra cover different phases of...
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    The Canarias Type IA Supernova Archive. II. A Standard Spectral Evolution Sequence
    In a previous paper, we presented an atlas containing 59 low-resolution spectra that correspond to 27 Type Ia supernovae, covering about 1 year of Type Ia...